"The Poppenkast is basically a community of people who are doing some kind of games related stuff." Jan Willem Nijman, one half of Vlambeer, pauses, taking a breath as if he's going to continue his sentence, before letting it stand as it is. For the past ...

the business half of Vlambeer, learned negotiation skills from time spent as a computer salesman and as part of a Model United Nations debate team. Most of the studio's games are twitchy action titles because of Nijman's background on The Poppenkast.

“Game a Week” sits somewhere between the amazing #1GAM that inspired ... In fact, my Vlambeer co-founder Jan Willem Nijman started most of his career at the Poppenkast, a community that would often push itself to make games with three hours or …

Vlambeer has no intention on making big games; in fact, Ismail announced to an audience that he wants to "make better games, not bigger games." As a part of the ... succession of short games through The Poppenkast, where he participated in many three ...

Elspet Gray: Theatre and TV actress who starred in the many farces staged by her husband, Brian Rix

Gray’s television debut was in The Poppenkast (1952), a children’s tale with another future farceur, Leslie Phillips. Following a BBC outside broadcast from the Whitehall of Love in a Mist in 1956, with Rix and Gray as stranded newly-weds, Rix arranged ...

The 4 Hour RPG was created, by JW, for Poppenkast's 4 Hours to Glory competition. In this little, but awesome, RPG you're given a random class and level to start off with. There are four levels total each progressively harder. Every class is equipped with ...

Since I got back into making games in about 2005, I've always shared the development process, if not the builds of the game (Lone Survivor has had hundreds of testers all along the way, mostly from a couple of private forums such as The Poppenkast.)

The presidents of the EU's three main institutions have collected the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway's capital Oslo. The EU was awarded the prize for its role in uniting the continent after two world wars. At the ceremony there was applause when the leaders ...

BBC •
6 years ago

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20664167

The Great Guantánamo Puppet Theater

Last week the Department of Defense launched a major media offensive. It announced that trials of six “high-value detainees” linked to the attacks on 9/11 would be charged in proceedings before the Guantánamo military commissions this spring.

Harper's Magazine •
10 years ago

http://harpers.org/blog/2008/02/the-great-guantanamo-puppet-theater/

The world’s greatest cat?

Orange-eyed White Persian Gemkin Starwind dominated this year’s Supreme Cat Show, one of the world’s biggest titles, securing the ‘Supreme Exhibit’ title for the second straight year at the event in Birmingham, England. It continues an astonishing ...